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Italo De Zan, cyclist
Italy, Noteworthy, Profiles

Italo De Zan, cyclist

Italo De Zan –an Italian racing cyclist – died from Covid-19 on 9 March 2020.   He won stage 10 of the 1948 Giro d'Italia. De Zan died from COVID-19 in Treviso on 9 March 2020.
Dr Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, physician & politician
Iran, Medics, Profiles

Dr Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani, physician & politician

Mohammad-Reza Rahchamani –an Iranian physician and reformist politician – succumbed to Covid-19 on 9 March 2020. From 1984 to 2000, he represented Sabzevar in the Iranian Parliament. During the early 2000s, he headed Iran's State Welfare Organization. Rahchamani was born in 1952 in Sabzevar and studied medicine. There is no record of imprisonment for him before the Iranian Revolution, and he is not an Iran–Iraq War veteran. A founding member of the Islamic Iran Solidarity Party, from 1998 to 2002 he was the party's secretary-general and in 2006 became chairman of the central council. He was also a founding member of the Islamic Association of Iranian Medical Society. In 2020, as the secretary-general of the National Unity and Cooperation Party, he defied the decision of mainstream refo...